Guy Harris wrote: > Luis Ontanon wrote: > > >> I have four diferent examples I wrote myself: >> four user encap "protocols", the k12 config file, the snmpv3 users >> file and lastly the df_macros table >> >> but there's more candidates in there, not written by me: >> > > Are these all preference settings? > > If so, should this be a preference type? > That's the same that comes to my mind.
While I can see that this is a case for a new preference setting type, adding a completely new mechanism really seems "over engineered" - unless there's a real good reason to do so. Another drawback of your solution is to explain things to users - some settings can be set through the GUI, some other can be set through a file in, some can be ... - that doesn't sound very clean to me. Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
